White House changes website. Now claims Office of Administration exempt from FOIA.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:
Two weeks ago, CREW documented how the White House website conflicted with the Bush administration's claim that the Office of Administration was not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. On August 23, 2007, the Washington Post took note of the conflict between the White House website and the White House position:
The claim, made in a motion filed Tuesday by the Justice Department, is at odds with a depiction of the office on the White House's own Web site. As of yesterday, the site listed the Office of Administration as one of six presidential entities subject to the open-records law, which is commonly known by its abbreviation, FOIA.
The White House website has been scrubbed -- and a new message indicates that the Office of Administration is now exempt from FOIA requests. Read on...
FIRST.
Down the rabbit hole....err uhm, the memory hole.
How DARE anyone think they have the right to accountability with this admin?!?
Big brother is taking care of us all. Now STFU and stop asking embarassing questions.
A change'll do you good.
A scrub'll do you better.
Don't like the rules, change the game. This is par for these crooks and has been all along.
Now the "whitey-house" will now answer all requests for information with the new FOIA meaning Fuck Off Inquisitive Asshole.
The white house is not one of the three branches of govt. and is not subject to any accountability or oversight.
So now it's the "White-Out House"?
We fart in the general direction of your puny laws!
Okay, now it's time for a REVOLUTION up in this bitch. 'Nuff Said.
Scrub all you want assholes. You will never wash the blood from your hands.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia"
Charlie Savage, In Pursuit of the Imperial President
Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for a series detailing how often President Bush used "signing statements" — controversial assertions of a chief executive's right to bypass provisions of new laws.
Now Savage has written a book describing how the Bush-Cheney administration has expanded executive power. It's called Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.
I tried posting this before. For some reason it kept disappearing.
Ooooo, I just love being ruled by fiat. It' so, so, well.....manly.
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..."claims Office of Administration exempt from FOIA."
They also claimed that Saddam had WMD, that the Iraqis would greet us with flowers AND chocolates, and that Saddam had bin Laden on his buddy list-whatever.
Different day, same bullshit.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14181701
I can't seem to post a link to NPR's Fresh Air interview with Charlie savage. It was a great interview and it's very relevant to this topic.
Am I being blocked or something?
[No. Apparently the spam filter is acting up. I'll try to fix it for you. Sorry-Sitemonitor]
Albatross @ 11:
/clap
Note: MSM will not report this.
Since when does herr dubyah have ANYTHING to do with freedom?
Bringing the frog to a boil.
Wheeeeeee! I'm riding this down the Memory Hole. Everything else is going, why not enjoy the ride?
sharkcellar @ 16:
excellent - thanks for the link!
Like kids, the more the bastards get away with, the further they will push it. The silent American public and the spineless Democrats are Bushes enablers. Probably be just as silent when BushCo pulls off 911 Ver. 2 and declares the Congress and elections null and void and makes himself King for ever. Their "keep them dumb and distracted" routine seems to be working quite well for them. I seriously doubt the Neos are gonna let go of what has taken 7 years to accomplish anyways. The table is set folks. And you thought it wouldn't or couldn't happen again ?
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Behold the White House very slowly (so as not to raise suspicions) circles the wagons in preparation for the final big loot and plunder.
Hang on folks, it's about to get bumpy for real.
How many times does Bush have to violate the law before he is impeached?
it's 1984 and bush is a fucking criminal to humanity and
an enemy combattant to the USA and our Constitution.
IMPEACH THE BASTARD !!!!!
Someone needs to screen capture all of the white house web pages.
I do that whenever I cite something from the white house, cuz I know it may change when they realized they've goofed and their propganda doesn't match with the white house archives.
bullsh*t! Somebody save our country.
Why should the White House Homepage be any different from the law, history and even international treaties? If it doesn't go along the party lines, just rewrite it or trash it! Problem fixed. We all know that's the way the WarPigs do business.
"you learned well from us grasshopper"-Stasi to 43
Bush is a kind hearted soul that hears the voice of god. We really shouldn't question this...it's none of our business. He is only protecting us...
As predicted, MSM is dead silent on this.
Keyword: dead.
And Bush will get away with it every time.
The Democrats are useless when it comes to accountability for Bush.
Sure, they'll nibble around the edges, but they won't go straight for the middle.
Someone do something!
This maniac has his finger on ALL the buttons!
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Here's the Democratic response:
"Okay, sorry we asked."
Not a single person in the media or the Congress for that matter noticed that the Whitehouse watered down the GAO report by creating a new category. There was no category called "partially met" before the Whitehouse got a hold of the report.
"Partially met " is a meaningless category because there is no standard for partially met. Partially met could be anything from 1% to 99%. The one thing you can be certain of is that it doesn't mean the same thing as "met", the results are still the same as they were before the Whitehouse spin machine got a hold of the report, 15 of 18 benchmarks were not met.
Thing Fish @ 38:
Nice "Hitchhiker" reference there!!
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